Over the past two weeks, I have done 3 things.

1) I’ve almost migrated everything to VServer guests, with the exception of TWiki. It got slightly complicated when I realised that my ISP doesn’t allow me to have more than 5 internal IP addresses (one for each VServer guests). It’s just weird. So I had to add another router in between the server and the ISP’s router just to fake it. Too bad I also heard from someone that VServer doesn’t do live migration or live backups. Might have more work to do in the future for VServer.

2) Moved this blog to Wordpress, quite glad in a way. Lots to migrate, and new things to learn. It’s an amazing piece of mature blogging application I must say. Too bad that TWiki’s BlogUp wasn’t mature enough, and that I didn’t have the time to help develop it, which was my initial intention. I’ve optimised it to my best knowledge. Haven’t touch the MySQL performance tuning though. Only the Apache and Wordpress itself.

3) I’ve added some new websites on our main page, and awaiting for one site to publically launched in China. The frontpage has been tuned nicely. The load on the server is always high when anyone visits the site, mainly due to the high number of images! So what I did was create a large CSS sprite for all the logos. Works very well. Performance increased at least by 2 folds on this slow Pentium 2 junk. It was tested on this Web Page Analyzer. Don’t think it’s full proof, but it’s doable.

Now that this is done. Next up, upgrading TWiki for development and install Trac.